Chapter 528: The Milky Way of the World Converges to Jinan

In the history without Li Meng, after Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he brought a large amount of family funds to the capital. The amount of millions of taels is confirmed by everyone. Many unofficial historical notes say that the property is tens of millions of taels.

Zheng Zhilong, who has always been smart, may think that he had been with Long very early, so he planned to take Yin to the capital to enjoy wealth. However, the truth is that wealth is not revealed. It is common in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad. For those barbarians outside the pass, how could they bear it when they see so much silver?

Not long after he went to the capital, Zheng Zhilong was questioned and imprisoned and died in prison.

In this era, Zheng Zhilong was one of the first local forces to have a relationship with Shandong. Although there were many intrigues between them, the Zheng family and the Tartars colluded with each other and wanted to attack Shandong's ports, the open relationship was still maintained. On the one hand, through the Jiaozhou port and Lingshan Commercial Bank system, the goods transported from abroad were sold to a wider area in the north. On the other hand, the Shandong salt goods were always sold to Fujian, and on the third hand, several maritime troop transports, the Zheng family was shipped out of the boat.

In addition, part of Shandong's naval system was brought out by Denglas and Qingzhou sea monkey Yang Si, and part of it was the group of people who were sent to Fujian for training. Although they were deeply guarded by the Zheng family and restricted them all at that time, they also had a source of incense, and many middle and lower-level officers below were familiar with each other.

With such internal and external relations, the Zheng family made up their minds to change their camps, and there was no obstacle. Shandong also accepted it relatively. After all, the Zheng family's forces were all at sea, and there was no conflict with the current development direction of Jiaozhou Camp.

Of course, what really reassured Li Meng was that Zheng Zhilong. Zheng Zhilong was able to develop the power of the Zheng family to such a few steps in places like Fujian, thousands of ships of all sizes and tens of thousands of tribes. Including the periphery, he was almost the overlord on the seas of East Asia. It can be said that it was a copy of Li Meng's development. Moreover, Zheng Zhilong did not have these strange things in Li Meng, which was even more rare.

With such a talent, he didn't have the will to be independent. When he was doing something at sea, he was flirting with the Ming government, thinking about being recruited.

The Qing Dynasty was in great power and took the initiative to contact and sell it. After Shandong confirmed its absolute advantage, the Zheng family immediately posted it again. There was no idea of ​​dominating the side, but they always wanted to rely on the strong and use the power in their hands to exchange for peace and wealth.

This is what is called a petty family spirit. Sun Chuanting has a very appropriate evaluation of Zheng Zhilong. "It's a pity that great talent." Such evaluation is similar to what later generations said to Zheng Zhilong. Because of this, Li Meng was very relieved of Zheng Zhilong. Naturally, he would not kill chickens and get eggs like those Qing relatives who had never seen the world. Instead, he was preparing to give Zheng Zhilong enough wealth in exchange for the maritime power in his hands.

Now the white people are already divided by sea, and they have not even been unified in the Ming Dynasty. If they start from scratch, they may not be able to develop maritime power. Using the Zheng family's already large-scale maritime power, the starting point will be higher, catching up with Europe's already leading sea steps and conquering those territories that the West has not yet conquered.

At this time, the north was only one step away from being fully controlled by Li Meng, and the strength Li Meng controlled far exceeds that of the south where all the forces were mixed, and the general trend of the world was already clear.

Zheng Zhilong, who wanted to rely on the strong, would naturally take the initiative to surrender. He arranged his younger brother Zheng Zhibao to contact Jinan, which was an obvious move.

Li Meng had already considered the next arrangement for Zheng Zhilong, but this time the land sale plan was released, Zheng Zhilong's performance still shocked him.

The land selling strategy is not a confidential document. From the time when Xiangcheng was confirmed, everyone from the Jiaozhou Camp system knew about it. Some ideas, those who could write a few words, participated as much as possible in this discussion. It was also because Shandong officials were relatively self-disciplined. This news spread slowly after the first month.

Zheng Zhibao, who lives in Jinan, only learned the exact news in February. His first reaction was to write a letter to tell his elder brother Zheng Zhilong who was still in Fujian.

At the end of March, Zheng Zhilong rushed from Fujian to Jinan with three million taels of silver. After Fang Yingren rushed back to Yangzhou, he returned to Jinan one day later than Zheng Zhilong. He took two million taels of silver.

Huai merchants rely on salt, and Fujian merchants rely on marine trade. These are the two most profitable businesses in this era. The Fang family in Yangzhou and the Zheng family in Fujian are representatives of these two places. They also accumulated amazing wealth, including three million taels and two million.3 million taels, which almost caught up with the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty in the year, but were easily taken out by private individuals.

After getting so much money, the two companies asked for it very simply, they bought the land they bought, and they bought the land they sold in Henan, Shaanxi, and Beizhili.

Li Meng was indeed too surprised. He really underestimated the enthusiasm of the Chinese people for land. The wealthy businessmanship and wealthy. After having money, expanding reproduction is secondary. Buying land is the foundation for heirlooms. Fujian has many mountains and no fertile land, two Huaihei have many imperial villages, many salt fields, Henan, northern Zhili have many fertile land, and Shaanxi has eight hundred miles of Qinchuan. These are all the best fields. Why don’t these two families be moved? They come first, relying on their unique relationship with Shandong and their strong financial resources, they must buy as much world as possible.

Whether it is Zheng Zhilong or Fang Yingren, they all told Li Meng that no matter whether it is a business on salt or a business on sea, no matter how much money you earn, it is just a wealth or a land purchase. Only in this way can the wealth be passed down from generation to generation, and all descendants can receive benefits.

Money does not reinvest or expand production in the industry, but instead invests in purchasing fields. This is also the reason why industry and commerce have produced so-called "sprouts" but have not grown into towering trees.

Shandong, which formulated the enthusiasm of the Zheng family and Fang family, obviously did not expect that according to the original land price, almost all the "bored land" in Henan would be sold short by these two companies because these fields were abandoned for a year and farmers could not be found to farm for the time being, which was of little significance to Shandong.

But after seeing this enthusiasm, I found such a problem. The sale of unowned land everywhere was intended to win over the hearts of the gentry and powerful people in the world. To achieve the world, it required both kindness and power. Shandong's military power and military power were already enough to make them really convinced, so they had to come up with benefits.

The three provinces of land that are currently available are naturally the most and best in Zhongzhou and Henan. If they are bought by these two companies, what should other people who want to buy land?

As a result, after the people from the Finance and Trade Department were nervously planning, they raised the originally set low land price a lot. In this way, the Fang family and the Zheng family could only buy the land of the mansion, but this scale was too large.

But Zheng Zhilong and Fang Yingren are also considered big shots. This time, they completely ignored their identity and became entangled with Li Meng, and they had to buy more.

Shandong did not dare to sell these two families to buy land in such a fray. Both of them were so rich and powerful. What would happen to the other powerful gentry? They would always give them some land at that time, otherwise they would just be resentful.

Sure enough, in mid-April, Shandong Governor Liu Qingsong personally asked to meet the general and asked to purchase the fields of the two prefectures in Zhangde and Weihui, Henan. Several confidants from the clans of the Northern Zhili Governor Liu Qingyang sent several confidants to bring 1.5 million taels of silver.

One million taels of silver, that is nearly 100,000 kilograms. These large amounts of cash silver are definitely not something that a few people can get. The Zheng family has a large fleet to transport, the Fang family and the Liu family also used their servants and tenants, and the Jiaozhou camp soldiers around Jinan City were also busy.

This large amount of money was escorted and transported by a large number of people, and they had to be placed and arranged to guard the guards. The troops and horses, which were still in the process of rest, were mobilized again.

The officials and clerks in various departments in Shandong were busy and couldn't even sleep well all day long. The hair of the sponsors was a few worries. Kong Sande, the sponsor of the Lijin Bureau, rushed directly from Jiningzhou to Jinan City. He had a lot of experience in handling large sums of money and would definitely be able to help.

Although everyone is troubled, it is a very happy trouble. In the first year of Hua, the army expansion was nearly doubled. The manufacturing of weapons, the establishment of military farms, the early relief for the victims, and the whole world is about to settle down. The mountains of gold and silver accumulated at the Jiaozhou Ying East Expedition West Station were also quickly consumed.

Tian Zhengshi, Finance and Trade Department and Lijin Bureau are quarreling every day. The Finance and Trade Department wants to increase the collection of military farms under Tian Zhengshi, and want the Lijin Bureau to pay more silver. The two companies are extremely dissatisfied with the high indicators and say that the private salt and commercial banks under the Finance and Trade Department are too low, and the merchants are exempt from lijin transportation through canal transportation, and private salt is sold to the farm at the public price. Is this necessary to increase lijin and reduce the salt price?

Now there is no need to quarrel. The money from all over the country has entered Jinan like flowing money. Now the organizers of each department and bureau are united every day with Sun Hedou, the organizers of the manufacturing bureau, and Guo Dong, deputy organizers, to ask them to build the vault quickly, and urge the masters of the Han and foreigners to build the hydraulic coin minting machine.

Shandong now doesn’t have to worry about money, but about how to spend money and how to spend money more effectively...

After the Liu family came, Kong Sande also took out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. The wealthy merchants from Shandong and Lianghuai mobilized in turn and rushed to Jinan with the silver. In the south of the Yangtze River, the wealthy families did not dare to blatantly, but they also sent their children from the family to Shandong with money.

The officials and nobles in the capital were also rich and wealthy. After a brief shock, they all reacted and sent people to come with silver. What's even more ridiculous is that several Mongolian princes and princes in Yongping Prefecture actually arranged their subordinates to rush to Shandong with gold and silver.
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